Military News HEADLINES
Add to MyYahoo  RSS
Published February 23rd, 2013 - 12:05AM
Most of 800,000 Department of Defense civilian employees will see their workweeks shortened and their pay cut by 20 percent from late April through September, if Congress, as now expected, fails to stop $46 billion in indiscriminate defense budget cuts set to take effect March 1.
Published February 22nd, 2013 - 12:05AM
Thurston County firefighters rescued three Joint Base Lewis-McChord paratroopers who were caught in trees during an exercise Thursday afternoon.
Published February 21st, 2013 - 12:05AM
Staff Sgt. Nicholas Reid showed up at his Joint Base Lewis-McChord explosives unit in 2008 with more passion than knowledge about the dangerous specialty he chose. He left it two months ago as an expert, someone fellow soldiers admired for the intensity he brought to his job disabling enemy bombs – and for the wild spirit he showed after hours.
Published February 16th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Col. Darron Wright thought he knew who the bad guys were on his first deployment to Iraq. They were Sunni Muslim insurgents giving his soldiers hell in the communities around Saddam Hussein’s hometown.
Published February 16th, 2013 - 12:05AM
MOSCOW — With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky Friday and exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs, injuring more than 1,000 people as it blasted out windows and spread panic in a city of 1 million.
Published February 16th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Defense Department civilian and military leaders gave full details this week of the readiness crisis unfolding across America’s armed forces, and got back not a whit of reassurance from Congress that relief is on the way.
Published February 10th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Army leaders insist they have fixed flaws in Madigan Army Medical Center’s behavioral health department that resulted in the misdiagnoses of hundreds of patients. But they have refused to release reports that could substantiate their findings and shed light on what happened at the Army hospital last year.
Published February 9th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Stephanie Crosse figures her next move with her Army lawyer husband should open new career opportunities. She has a license to practice law in Georgia, and the Peach State is their next destination.
Published February 9th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Lt. Cmdr. Jack Townsend, a Navy Reserve retiree in Richmond, Va., first became aware a decade ago that he wasn’t considered a military veteran under federal law. It’s been bothering him ever since.
Published February 3rd, 2013 - 12:05AM
Lakewood residents living next door to Joint Base Lewis-McChord say the base’s rapid growth has created major traffic headaches in their neighborhood.
Published February 2nd, 2013 - 12:05AM
Congressional leaders appear to have reach consensus that it is safer politically to allow deep and arbitrary cuts to military budgets than it is to negotiate a large debt-reduction deal that would have names attached.
Published January 29th, 2013 - 12:05AM
An ambush opened on the American patrol from just 35 feet away in hostile Taliban territory.
Published January 26th, 2013 - 12:05AM
This time last year, the Air Force unveiled a plan to cut Air National Guard strength by 5,100 members along with more than 200 Guard aircraft, touting this as a reasonable efficiency, in part because Guard squadrons cost more to operate than active duty squadrons.
Published January 24th, 2013 - 12:05AM
For years, female soldiers from the South Sound have served in harm’s way despite official limits on their front-line combat roles, which the Pentagon announced Wednesday would be lifted.
Published January 20th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Naval Hospital Bremerton doctors, nurses and corpsmen stay sharp by working on dummies.
Published January 19th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Unbending politicians who hold defense budgets hostage while refusing to cut a deal to address the nation’s debt crisis are putting at risk the readiness of America’s armed forces, the Joint Chiefs warned Monday in a “28-star” letter to the House and Senate armed services committees.
Published January 16th, 2013 - 12:05AM
The family of a Lakewood teenager who died from a drug overdose in a Fort Lewis barracks four years ago will receive $40,000 from the government and a security contractor, according to a lawsuit settlement between the U.S. attorney’s office and the girl’s mother.
Published January 16th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is scheduled to appear in court Thursday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for an arraignment on charges that he murdered 16 Afghan civilians and wounded six more last March.
Published January 13th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Defense spending soared in Washington state last year, even as the specter of long-anticipated budget cuts drew closer.
Published January 12th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Spc. Christopher Anderson flew across the country Friday morning thinking he’d surprise the infantrymen he last saw in southern Afghanistan seven months ago when he lost a leg to an enemy mine. He figured he’d sneak up on them at their Joint Base Lewis-McChord headquarters.
Published January 12th, 2013 - 12:05AM
The military’s managed-care option — Tricare Prime — will end Oct. 1 for retirees, their family members, and military survivors who reside more than 40 miles from a military treatment facility or from a base closure site, Tricare Management Activity announced Wednesday.
Published January 11th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Over the years, retired Col. Jimmie Kanaya felt the public’s gratitude time and again for his service with a storied regiment of Japanese American soldiers in World War II. He even accompanied President Barack Obama in the Oval Office two years ago to represent his unit when it received a special honor.
Published January 5th, 2013 - 12:05AM
For the fourth time, Kelly Colter of Lacey waited anxiously for the final minutes to pass before she could welcome back her husband from war.
Published January 4th, 2013 - 12:05AM
Before a roadside bomb in Baghdad burned and tore apart Jerry Majetich, before 62 operations put him back together, even before he volunteered for the Marines, then the Army, there were five older brothers who’d enlisted and a mother who’d served as an Army nurse in Korea.
Published December 29th, 2012 - 12:05AM
House-Senate conferees have agreed to the more modest House-passed plan for raising drug co-payments on military family members and retirees who fill prescriptions at TRICARE retail outlets or through mail order.
Published December 1st, 2012 - 7:43AM
What one word sums up your feelings about your father coming home from war? Chelsea Riley picked up a marker pen to answer the question, but she couldn’t stop at a single word. A small essay poured out, describing how she missed Capt. Ian Riley during the holidays even as she looked forward to his return by Christmas.

Published May 13th, 2012 - 4:14AM
Staff Sgt. Chris Miller smiles when he says he and his wife, Sarah, “bucked the trend” and kept their relationship together through four deployments in the past 10 years.
Published March 30th, 2012 - 12:00AM
There’s nothing like time at home between brutal combat deployments to refresh soldiers, get them fit for the next tour of duty and maybe help them save a relationship.
  « Previous Page            

CASUALTIES OF WAR

Search our database for service members from Washington or who were assigned from military installations around the state who have died in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere in U.S. military operations since Sept. 11, 2001.

JBLM NEWS

NW Guardian

More military news: For your local military news visit the Northwest Guardian. The authorized newspaper of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.

NORTHWEST GUARDIAN »


CONTESTS